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Patna,(BiharTimes): A week before the strike by the teachers of all the nine universities and colleges and one day before the similar call given by the non-teaching employees the state government on Wednesday agreed to implement the UGC pay-scale with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006 for university and college teachers.

The teachers had threatened to go an indefinite strike from July 8 to press for the implementation of their 21-point charter of demands including payment of revised UGC pay-scale. The non-teaching employees were to go on strike from July 1.

The principal secretary, cabinet and coordination department, Afzal Amanullah told reporters after the cabinet meeting that the salary backlog of university and college teachers would be paid in five instalments. He said the non-teaching employees of universities and colleges too would get the benefits of revised Sixth Pay Commission.

Amanullah said that the cabinet also decided to hike the salaries and other benefits of the employees of state judicial services in accordance with the recommendations of Justice Padmanabhan Committee.

The state government’s decision came on the eve of the announcement of the assembly election. Though the Centre had already agreed to share the burden caused to the state exchequer by this hike yet the state government had adopted dilly-dally attitude towards the teaching and non-teaching employees.

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